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| THIS
OUR NORTH AMERICA |
| Yet another natural
disaster – Haiti Earthquake |
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Khushwant Toor writes from
Toronto
HAITI a small country in the Central
America - Caribbean region was hit by a 7.0
magnitude earthquake on January 12, 2010. In this
latest natural calamity in the world the quake was
powerful enough that it virtually flattened the
entire capital city of Port-au-Prince including the
Presidential Palace.
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| NDP MLA comes under attack from Sikh
fundamentalists |
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Gurpreet Singh writes
from Vancouver
THE Surrey Fleetwood MLA, Jagrup Brar has come
under attack from the Sikh fundamentalists for
supporting the Hindu migrants in Punjab, India.
Brar, who is currently visiting India, had said
that the Punjabis should respect the migrants from
the eastern parts of India. More
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| America unlikely to give up
arrogance and embrace
humility |
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Sawraj Singh
 THE
first decade of the twenty first century has just
ended and the world has entered the second decade
of the twenty first century. The west,
particularly America, has suffered the worst
economic recession since the great depression of
the thirties.
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| Gandhi’s descendant
questions Modi’s Gandhianism |
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Gurpreet Singh
THE descendant of Mahatma Gandhi, who was
in New Delhi to attend the eighth Parvasi Bhartiya
Divas says that Gujarat Chief Minister’s views on
Gandhianism are in complete contrast to what is
being done in that state of India.
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| Poseurs and
Pragmatists: Wars of the Space Age |
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Dr. Amrik Singh writes from
Sacramento
NORWEGIAN Nobel Peace committee applied a
different yardstick to award 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
It was more for the possibilities and prospects of
peace in the nuclear-armed, terror-ridden and
fiscally-starved world than for any accomplishments
in these areas. More
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ANALYSIS |
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U.S. arms feed Yemen's gun culture
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Thalif Deen
WHEN Yemen refused to vote in support of a
U.S.-sponsored Security Council resolution against
Iraq during the 1990-1991 Gulf War, a visibly angry
U.S. delegate turned to the Yemeni diplomat and
said: "That will be the last time you will ever vote
against a U.S. resolution." More |
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| The revolution rolls
on |
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Kavita Kuruganti
PUNJAB is witnessing a different kind of
revival of ‘trinjans’ or forums, where women share
their knowledge on farming, spinning, stitching and
healing. I thought that a story on Punjabi women
would mostly be about girls preoccupied with the
glamour world, young women waiting to get married to
NRI mundas (men) and older women being silent
witnesses to social evils like female foeticide...
stereotypes formed despite the best of efforts. More
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Afghanistan: From bad
to worse |
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Sawraj Singh
THE situation in Afghanistan is quickly
deteriorating. Thousands of civilians, Afghan
troops, and NATO troops have lost their lives. The
casualty figure in the year 2009 was the highest
since the war started 8 years ago. More
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| Mahatma Gandhi on music |
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Satya Narayana Sahu
EVEN as Mahatma Gandhi had elementary knowledge of
music he had extraordinary love for it and
brilliantly expounded its far reaching
significance for individual, social and national
life. While explaining its abiding place in the
realm of spirituality and religion he passionately
wrote about its therapeutic value in overcoming
anger and ensuring peace and tranquility of mind. More
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Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh are '2 Idiots': Shiv Sena
| Pak presents evidence against 26/11 suspects
| Punjab CM seeks Ministry of Defence Approval
for Raising 5 IRBs | State debt to become 'biggest
problem': IMF chief | Serena lifts Australian
Open trophy
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| Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh are
'2 Idiots': Shiv Sena |
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initiating a tirade against Shah Rukh Khan for supporting
the inclusion of Pakistani cricketers in the IPL, the
Shiv Sena is now attacking Aamir Khan for voicing his
opinion in favour of Pakistani cricketers. In another
show of extremism, the political party has even named
the two superstars as ‘2 Idiots’, severely
criticizing them for favouring the opponents. More
Updated on January 31, 2010 at 12:30 a.m.
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- Pak presents evidence against
26/11 suspects More
- Punjab CM seeks Ministry
of Defence Approval for Raising 5 IRBs More
- State debt to become 'biggest
problem': IMF chief More
- Serena lifts Australian Open
trophy More
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| E D I T O R I
A L |
| Time to concentrate on
agriculture |
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 EVER
since 1991 when the wheel of so called reforms was
set rolling, Indian leaders with some exception
started neglecting agriculture sector. Industry,
commerce, service sector and financial markets
became the darling. More of public spending was in
that direction. These sectors are important in
their own way, but should they be developed at the
cost farm sector is a serious question.
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| FOCUS |
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Bringing equality
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Gobind Thukral
FOR ages caste has been integral to social system in
India. Caste in fact, has been so omnipresent in
Indian history that it has blurred our sense of
history. Caste defines the core of Indian tradition,
and it is seen today as a major threat to modernity. More |
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Sustainable farming catching up in Punjab
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Amarjit Singh
 IT is unfortunate that Punjab with the total area
of 2.5% of area of the country consumes 18% of the
pesticides consumed in the country – exclaimed one
of the participants of the training camp on
natural farming (Kudrati Kheti). This aptly
describes the reason behind emergence of Kheti
Virasat Mission and what they have achieved in the
last 4 years of their existence was quite evident
all through the 3 days of the training camp.
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2013 Parvasi Bhartiya
Divas likely to be linked with Gadarites
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Gurpreet Singh
THE annual Parvasi Bhartiya Divas that was first
organized in 2002 is often linked with Mahatma
Gandhi, the father of the Indian nation, who had
launched a passive resistance movement against the
British occupation of India. It coincides with the
return of Mahatma Gandhi to India from South
Africa in January, 1915. However, the 2013 Parvasi
Bhartiya Divas might be dedicated to the Gadar
revolutionaries, who had also returned to India to
face gallows. More
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| The Eighth Pravasi Divas |
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Bal Anand
 I don't want to sound overly judgemental in my
perception or belittle the much labored event by a
Ministry still struggling to come out of infancy
and over dependence on the MEA but so ably led by
indefatigable Keralite Vylar Ravi. The perceived
impression that exercise has been assuming the
character more of a fasion show of 'Pardesi
Models' some how refuses to disappear.
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| FEATURES |
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Rationality
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Professor Vinod Anand
RATIONALITY as a term is related to the idea of
reason, a word which is derived as much from older
terms referring to thinking itself as from giving
an account or an explanation. To act "rationally"
is to act in one's own best interest. Players can
be counted on to use strategies that will get them
the best possible payoff given their understanding
of the game. More
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Foreign journalists get tour of 26/11 sites
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Gurpreet Singh
IN an obvious attempt to keep the Mumbai terror attack
issue alive, the foreign journalists that came to India
to attend the Parvasi Bhartiya Divas were given a tour
of the sites that were targeted by the terrorists on
November 26, 2008. A team of journalists from 15
countries, including this correspondent, were taken to
the different places in Mumbai that came under attack by
Wing Commander, MV Rajavikraman, an Indian Air Force
officer on special duty with the Ministry of External
Affairs (MOEA). More
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Modi steals the show at Parvasi Bhartiya Divas
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Gurpreet Singh
 THANKS to the absence of the Punjab Chief
Minister, Parkash Singh Badal at the Parvasi
Bhartiya Divas held in New Delhi, his counterpart in
Gujarat, Narendra Modi stole the show. Badal had
skipped the conference of the state Chief Ministers
seeking Foreign Direct Investment in their
territories. Instead he sent his son and the Deputy
Chief Minister, Sukhbir Singh Badal to present the
case of his state before the foreign delegates.
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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Equality before law
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Joginder Singh Toor
 THE
cardinal aspect of the Constitution of India
enshrined in Article 14 is the same as in the
Constitution of United States of America
incorporated by its 14th amendment. The U.S. law
has constitutional guarantee that no person or
group will be denied such protection under the law
as is enjoyed by similar persons or groups i.e.
persons similarly situated must be treated
similarly. More
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| COMMENT |
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The Jan Sunwai that never was : Listen to
the voices from Chhattisgarh!
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IN Dantewada
yesterday a team of around 30 activists from NAPM and
other organizations, Medha Patkar and Sandeep Pandey
among them, were heckled, pelted with eggs and sewage
and attacked by a large gang of tribal youth, accusing
them of being Maoist sympathizers. The activists were
simply walking peacefully to the SP’s office to ask him
about the on-going repression in the area. More
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